[plug] sensors

[Adam Hewitt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Adrian Chadd
> Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2007 8:31 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] sensors
> 
> "Enterprise" is "can someone else be blamed if it breaks", and
> "will a company be around to provide support, rather than $PERSON", not
> really "will stuff break?" and not even "is it high quality?"
> 
> Only sales men and middle management try the "it won't ever
> break. ever."
> 
> Its all about how you present it. :)
> 

Well Skybridge have been developing imbedded linux routers for years, so the
'can someone else be blamed' isn't really the issue here. The problem is
that we don't have the manpower to write the code, test it and deploy it.
Although we have developers in house, there are only a handful of them and
they are more application developers rather than hardware to software
integrators.

I don't pretend to know a thing about this kind of programming, I can write
basic PERL code for text manipulation, so maybe I am thinking this would be
a lot harder/more time consuming than it is.

As Patrick said we are after something similar to the PIC/AVR idea, but
pre-done so that all we need to do is plug it into out router and start
worrying about the software on the router to do something useful with the
information. I have had a commercial reply to this off list which I will
investigate, but please keep the ideas coming.

Adam.